anthm writes: "VoIP use is becoming more and more prevalent meaning businesses are at risk to lose real money from hacker attacks. Even though VoIP can be used over secure, encrypted networks sometimes businesses focus more on functionality than security."

With governments wanting back doors and master decryption keys for voice traffic there is ever more reason to be vigilant. How many of us really believe that Microsoft *won't* be happy to let any government spy on Skype users? I doubt the patent they've applied for is "just for defense" in the patent wars...
-MC